For those of you who missed the countdown.. here's the results from the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100....





1. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
2.Art vs. Science - Parlez Vous Francais?
3. Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling
4. Phoenix - Lisztomania
5. Bluejuice - Broken Leg
6. La Roux - Bulletproof
7. Lisa Mitchell - Coin Laundry
8. Lily Allen - Not Fair
9. Muse - Uprising
10. Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
12. Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
13. Phoenix - 1901
14. Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
15. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
16. The Gossip - Heavy Cross
17. Kasabian - Fire
18. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
19. Muse - Undisclosed Desires
20. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
21. The Temper Trap - Fader
22. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
23. The Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1.9 (Ft. Steve Aoki)
24. Flight Of The Conchords - Carol Brown
25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
26. Metric - Help I'm Alive
27. La Roux - In For The Kill
28. Sarah Blasko - We Won't Run
29. Sarah Blasko - All I Want
30. Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings
31. Seth Sentry - The Waitress Song
32. Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was A Waitress
33. Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness (Ft. MGMT & Ratatat)
34. Little Birdy - Brother
35. Muse - Resistance
36. Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
37. Hilltop Hoods - Still Standing
38. Passion Pit - Little Secrets
39. John Butler Trio - One Way Road
40. Angus & Julia Stone - And The Boys
41. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge (Ft. Chris Keating)
42. British India - Vanilla
43. The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome (Ft. The Cool Kids)
44. Florence + the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
45. Florence + the Machine - Drumming Song
46. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
47. Karnivool - Set Fire To The Hive
48. The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear
49. Powderfinger - All Of The Dreamers
50. Sia - Buttons {CSS Remix}
51. Kasabian - Where Did All The Love Go
52. Vampire Weekend - Horchata
53. Miike Snow - Animal
54. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
55. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
56. The XX - Islands
57. Philadelphia Grand Jury - The Good News
58. The Temper Trap - Love Lost
59. Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone
60. Lily Allen - 22
61. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
62. Bloc Party - One More Chance
63. Karnivool - All I Know
64. The Middle East - Blood
65. Eskimo Joe - Foreign Land
66. Illy - Pictures
67. Washington - Cement
68. The Prodigy - Omen
69. Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox
70. Animal Collective - My Girls
71. Bertie Blackman - Byrds Of Prey
72. Sia - You've Changed
73. MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (Ft. John Legend)
74. Art vs. Science - Friend In The Field
75. Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
76. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
77. Jet - She's a Genius
78. Tame Impala - Remember Me
79. Yves Klein Blue - Getting Wise
80. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
81. Mumford & Sons - The Cave
82. Miami Horror - Sometimes
83. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
84. Muse - United States of Eurasia
85. Kasabian - Underdog
86. Flight Of The Conchords - Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)
87. The Middle East - The Darkest Side
88. NOFX - Creeping Out Sara
89. Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)
90. Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
91. Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
92. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
93. Bertie Blackman - Thump
94. Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
95. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
96. Deadmau5 - Ghosts 'n' Stuff (Ft. Rob Swire)
97. Regina Spektor - Laughing With
98. Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang
99. Tegan And Sara - Hell
100. Foo Fighters - Wheels



What do you think? Suprised? Or this is what you expected?

My laptop is being an absolute moron as of late. It's not allowing me to comment on blogspot hosted blogs that don't have a pop up box for the comments. Just thought I'd let you all know so that you don't think I'm being a twat and not commenting your posts, I promise that I have been reading them though :)


If anyone knows how I can fix this little inconvenience in my life, please comment on here or shoot me an email at
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Well I seem to be having a good week for opposing different aspects of various holidays.

My latest whinge topic is Australia Day.

There is so many things wrong with this day, I don't even know where to begin. 

January 26th 1778. The day that hundreds of European settlers arrived in Botany Bay on the First Fleet. This was also the day that many, many Aboriginal people lost their lives by being murdered, simply for existing. Our ancestors marched right into someone else's home and killed these people for absolutely no good reason. 

A large majority of the Aboriginal or Indigenous community of Australia refer to Australia Day as 'Invasion Day' and I think that's pretty spot on. It's disgusting the way these innocent people were treated by the Europeans. We shouldn't be celebrating our country on this date. It's like celebrating the fact that our ancestors came in and killed for no reason.

The way people celebrate it also gives me something to complain about.

Australia Day celebrations have turned into a VB drinking/meat eating/flag wearing/other race hating competition. Being Australian shouldn't be about how many beers you can skull, or if you wear thongs or watch the Cricket. Being Australian should be about being thankful that we live in a pretty peaceful environment, that we have a good health and schooling system (these don't even exist in some countries), that we have social security and that we don't have bombs dropped on our heads each week. 

Unfortunately, Australia has quite a number of bogans. The sad thing is that the individuals which engage in such seedy behaviour are proud of it. How is this something to be proud of? Wearing tshirts bearing the slogan "We grew here, you flew here" or one with "F*ck off, we're full" inside the outline of Australia is apparently considered 'cool'? People need to learn respect, humility and appreciation for how lucky they have it and how worse off they could be.

Back to Australia Day being on such an inappropriate date, it's such a tough debate as to which date it should be shifted to. 

January 1st is an option as it's the anniversary of when all the states federated to become one nation in 1901. People argue that this shouldn't happen because January 1st is already New Years Day and a public holiday in itself.

Anzac Day (25th April) has also been suggested but many don't believe it's a good idea as this day belongs solely to the ANZAC's who fought so hard for our country. 

 

I like the idea of having Australia Day on 13th February. The anniversary of the date when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the formal apology to the Stolen Generation of Aboriginals. It was such a day of cultural awareness and reconciliation and it felt like everyone in this country was on the same level. The Government will never change the date to this though because unfortunately there is such a huge population of individuals who were totally against the formal apology.

I understand that Australia Day has forever been known to fall on January 26th and we're all used to it, but surely we can compromise a bit and try and empathise with the Aboriginal community because of what happened on that date all those years ago. 

Also, on a side note- how do people get away with wearing flags as capes or how do companies even get away with making thongs, bikini's, shorts etc with the Australian flag on it? It's considered an offence to have the Australian flag touch the ground when being pulled down from a flagpole. This isn't even logical if people are allowed to wear the flag as a bikini. 

What do you think? Should Australia Day be changed? If so, what date should it be?

A couple of you might remember my excitement for the 2010 Big Day Out.

I only have one word to describe what should have been a fun, free spirited, musically enriching event: disaster.


I won't go into hectic detailing here but to cut a long story short, I fainted within 45 MINUTES OF ARRIVING. I didn't get to see any bands, definitely not Lily Allen, but spent most of the day in hospital recieving stitches on my skull. (You really don't want to know what sort of a state my cream crocheted vest was in)

Just to clarify- I wasn't under the influence of alcohol and certainly not drugs. The doctor who treated me diagnosed it as a faint from the heat. It was around 45 degrees celsius (around 113 degrees fahrenheit) that day and I wasn't the only one who suffered heat exhaustion.

So, we're just a few weeks into January and the supermarket shelves are already spilling with Easter Eggs.

Article from News.com.au

Surely when you read the title of this post, you thought as I did "What the fuck?"

But yes, unfortunately- Sarah Palin has signed on with Fox News as a political commentator and part time host.
I feel sorry for all the American people who have to be subjected to her every day.
But then again, if you think Fox News is good- you probably deserve to see her every day.

The announcement that she will be joining their current line up has spawned another one of Palin's "I don't have a brain" comments:

"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news"

Idiot.

It's a universally known fact that Fox News shows extreme bias towards right wing politics. They're not exactly subtle about their conservative views. It's not even an exaggeration to say that Fox News is almost comic in political reporting style.

I'm sure Sarah Palin will just add to this surge of political bias.

If you're not familiar with the crap that Palin goes on about normally, here's a few quotes for entertainment purposes:

Model Catherine McNeil and MTV presenter Ruby Rose have announced their plans to tie the knot.



Ruby posted on her Facebook: "Woof Woof Rose is engaged to Meow Meow McNeil".

As same sex marriage is not allowed here in Australia, it is alleged that the couple are wanting to get married in Canada.

Full article at Daily Telegraph


Congratulations to the happy couple :) :)

Jennifer Hawkins is posing nude and unphotoshopped on the cover of this month's Marie Claire magazine.

There is a lot of debate about this magazine cover, whether or not it promotes positive body image, the "normality" of cellulite and wrinkeles or if it's sending out the right message.



My opinion on this is, if you want to promote the whole idea that nobody's perfect- then you don't use a SUPERMODEL for this.
I'm the first to point out that supermodel's aren't perfect at all, but unfortunately in this day and age, supermodels don't really carry much weight on them.

I'm not at all saying to put a normal, everyday person on the cover of Marie Claire because that wouldn't generate sales and therefore not be the best idea for promoting positive body image. What I would like to see done, is that a celebrity or public figure is put on the cover. A celebrity or public figure who is not a model. Therefore, sales are still generated because the average reader recognises the celebrity. As the covergirl isn't a model, readers can more easily resonate with their body figure than what they could with a model.

All in all, it seems like a massive garner for publicity and an aim to have a big step up from what Sarah Murdoch did.


Thoughts?